Intel-ASML Deal Marks a Shift

A great move by INTC! This will further distance themselves from folks like AMD (a dead company walking) and ARM. If you depend upon design solely, you are under pressure to line up manufacturing for your design, which is also dependent upon the end user wanting to order the chip, which needs to be beta tested for functionality/efficiency, etc. INTC already has both design and manufacturing, so there is integration and no potential wait in line competition with other designs/end users. It is more costly, obviously, but INTC already has state of the art facilities and integrating with ASML fab technologies enhances both mfg. tech and future cap ex for INTC. I give AMD another year of survival as they continue to burn cash and ARM should be reachable with INTC designs in two years or sooner

3:11 pm July 10, 2012

450 millimeter? wrote:

450 millimeter technology? That is very big, in the eyes of ASML. It is equivalent of 17.72 inches. ASML now works on technology to make lines that are 22 NANOMETER apart from each other. That is thin enough to fit in the width of a hair 4000 times.

4:17 pm July 10, 2012

Archibald Preuschat wrote:

450 mm is the size of a wafer

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